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19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale)
Search the contents of 49 local and national newspapers from nineteenth century Britain. Includes titles such as the Freeman's Journal, Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper, and the Pall Mall Gazette. [more info]
A Guide to Finding Primary Sources at JMU
See JMU Librarians' top recommendations for finding primary sources. [more info]
ABZU: A Guide to Information Related to the Study of the Ancient Near East on the Web
  Abzu guides the user to data on the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean world... [more info]
Access World News (Readex)
Provides full-text for over 600 U.S. and over 700 international news sources. [more info]
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African American Biographical Database (Cancelled) (Chadwyck-Healey) (Cancelled)
This resource has been cancelled, effective 6/30/2009. Access to this resource will end 6/30/2009. Please begin using other resources. AABD is a collection that contains extended narratives of African Amerian activists, business people, former slaves, educators... [more info]
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African American Song (Alexander Street Press)
African American Song has merged with American Song. Please begin accessing this information through American Song or Music Online. This access point will expire. 16,000 tracks of historical blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narrative recordings from the first half of the 20th century. [more info]
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African Writers Series (Chadwyck-Healey)
Key texts of modern African literature. [more info]
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African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 (Chadwyck-Healey)
Includes the full text of almost 3,000 poems written between 1760 and 1900... [more info]
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Alexander Street Literature (Alexander Street Press)
A cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender... [more info]
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America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 (Readex)
Cover-to-cover digital facsimiles of 1,000 historic newspapers from every state... [more info]
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American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1: 1760-1900 (Readex)
Fully searchable facsimile editions of nearly 30,000 broadsides and ephemera printed in colonial... [more info]
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American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database of more than 400 sources of diaries, letters and memoirs... [more info]
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American Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street Press)
Full text database of over 1,000 film scripts digitized and thoroughly indexed... [more info]
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American Founding Era Collection: Rotunda (University of Virginia)
    Cross-search primary and secondary papers of major figures of the early republic... [more info]
American Memory (Library of Congress)
Digitized collections of primary source materials at the Library of Congress on American history and culture... [more info]
Internet
American National Biography (Oxford University Press)
A biographical resource for notable people in American history with a database offering portraits... [more info]
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American Periodical Series (ProQuest)
Digitized page images from American magazines and journals of all types. Titles range from some of the first... [more info]
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American Poetry (Chadwyck-Healey)
Includes 40,356 poems by 209 poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry... [more info]
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American Rhetoric Speech Bank (American Rhetoric)
Index and full text of over 5000 audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches... [more info]
Internet
American Social History Online
A web tool for finding and using digital content from over 175 American Social History research collections.  A project of the Digital Library Federation. [more info]
American Song (Alexander Street Press)
American Song is a history database with music from America's past... [more info]
Internet
American State Papers, 1789-1838 (Readex)
Legislative and executive documents of the United States government... [more info]
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American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular entertainment 1870-1920 (Library of Congress)
Part of the American Memory project [more info]
Internet
AP Images (Accuweather/AP)
Image a database containing the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images... [more info]
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Archive of Americana (Readex)
A cluster of collections reflecting the history of the United States through its congressional publications... [more info]
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ArchiveGrid (OCLC)
Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories... [more info]
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ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
Provides the complete text of nearly 2,000 French works including classic works of French literature, non-fiction prose, and technical writing. [more info]
ARTstor
Image database containing images of architecture, painting, sculpture... [more info]
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Asian American Drama (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of Asian American plays with biographical, production and theatrical information... [more info]
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Black Drama (Alexander Street Press)
Full text of plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights... [more info]
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Black Short Fiction (Alexander Street Press)
A full-text collection of short stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. [more info]
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Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans... [more info]
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Black Women Writers (Alexander Street Press)
Fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean [more info]
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BNA Tax Management Portfolios (BNA)
Provides expert analysis, news, reports, and primary sources in tax research... [more info]
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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database offering women's diaries and letters... [more info]
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British Census 1851 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
Census of Devon, Norfolk, and Warwick counties in England, from March 31, 1851... [more info]
Reference Desk
British Census and National Index 1881 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
1881 Census of England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, and the Royal Navy... [more info]
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C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info]
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CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) (The Art Museum Image Consortium)
This digital image database offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources... [more info]
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Caribbean Literature (Alexander Street Press)
A collection of poetry and fiction produced in the Caribbean region during the 19th and 20th centuries... [more info]
Chicago Manual of Style
Get help citing sources, determining proper grammar and usage, creating.... [more info]
Campus/Remote, PN160 .C37 2003
Civil War CD-ROM : the War of the Rebellion (United States War Dept.) (Guild Press of Indiana)
Contains the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies consisting of battle reports... [more info]
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Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (Thomas Publishing Co.)
Full-text of major articles related to the Civil War from the New York Herald, Charleston Mercury, and Richmond Enquirer... [more info]
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Corsair: the online research resource of the Pierpont Morgan Library
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CQ Press Electronic Library (CQ Press)
Searches CQ Weekly, CQ Researcher, and CQ Historic Documents, all in one... [more info]
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CQ Press Historic Documents Online Library (CQ Press)
A full-text database of primary source documents. Each volume contains approximately one hundred documents highlighting the year's most important events and issues... [more info]
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Cross-Cultural CD (SilverPlatter)
Contains full-text descriptions of life in 30 societies around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries... [more info]
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CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences (CSA)
Search through thousands of illustrations from the natural science areas such as: Biology, Earth Science, Agriculture... [more info]
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David Rumsey Map Collection (Cartography Associates)
The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials... [more info]
Internet
Dictionary of Old English A-F (Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies)
The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language... [more info]
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Dictionary of Old English Corpus (University of Michigan)
A complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts... [more info]
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Dictionary of Old English: A to G (Univ of Toronto)
The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries (600 - 1150 A.D.) of the English language... [more info]
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Digital National Security Archive (Chadwyck-Healey)
This database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945 ... [more info]
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Discovery Education Streaming
Over 50,000 K-12 web-based digital videos from Discovery Education... [more info]
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Dolley Madison Papers (University of Virginia)
  Search history through Dolley Madison's correspondence letters dated from 1788 - 1837... [more info]
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Earls Colne, Essex - Records of an English Village, 1375-1854
Primary documents (church, state, estate, and personal) from one village in England over the course of four centuries. [more info]
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 (Readex) (Readex)
A collection of full-text digital books. Digital version of the Early American Imprints ... [more info]
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Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw Shoemaker: 1801-1819 (Readex)
A collection of 36,000 fully searchable digital books... [more info]
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Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922 (Readex)
Use: America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922... [more info]
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Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (The University of Chicago)
Primary source collection of personal accounts of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native... [more info]
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Early English Books Online (Chadwyck-Healey)
Early English Books Online™, 1475-1700 (EEBO) provides digital access to more than 100,000 literary and historical classics.... [more info]
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
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eHRAF World Cultures: Collection of Ethnography (Yale University)
The interface to this database has changed, effective Feb 1, 2008. A cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and ... [more info]
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Empire Online (1492-1962)
Full text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material... [more info]
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English Poetry Full-Text Database (Chadwyck-Healey)
Full-text of 1,350 English and British poems from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of 19th century ... [more info]
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English Short Title Catalogue
Indexes over 460,000 that were published between 1473 and 1800 primarily in Britain and North America. [more info]
English Verse Drama (Chadwyck-Healey)
Full-text of more than 1,500 works by 450 named and 230 anonymous authors ... [more info]
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Europa Film Treasures
 A film initiative from the Treasures of European Archives project that provides free streaming films from Europe and the Americas.
[more info]
Europa World Yearbook (Taylor and Francis)
Europa World provides the latest information covering political elections, country profiles, and industry statistics.... [more info]
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Evans Digital Edition 1639-1800 (Readex)
Use: Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 (Readex)... [more info]
FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals (Chadwyck-Healey)
FIAF is a bibliographical index offering in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals...
[more info]
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HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912) (HarpWeek)
A full-text database of Harper's Weekly text and images from the 19th century (1857-1912) ... [more info]
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Historical New York Times (ProQuest)
See: New York Times: Historical (ProQuest)... [more info]
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Historical Washington Post (ProQuest)
See: Washington Post: Historical (ProQuest)... [more info]
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In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives (Alexander Street Press)
Search letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials... [more info]
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Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alexander Street Press)
Includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842... [more info]
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JSTOR
Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics... [more info]
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Labyrinth
For Dr. Bankert's section of 299: Serves as a guide to online Medieval resources, including primary texts, secondary texts, and bibliographies. [more info]
Latin American Women Writers (Alexander Street Press)
A collection of poetry, prose, essays, and drama written by women writers from Mexico, Central America, and South America. [more info]
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Latino Literature (Alexander Street Press)
A collection of plays, prose, and poetry written Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, and other Latino writers. [more info]
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LEO Library Catalog: Screenplay Search (James Madison University)
The library has a number of classic and popular film screenplays in the collection. Use this link to list most of them, or search for individual film titles using LEO's title search. [more info]
LIFE Photo Archive
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. [more info]
Internet
Making of America
Digital copies of primary sources published in the US from pre Civil War to the 1920s. Click  'More Info' for website links... [more info]
Internet
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Information included in this database ranges from general reference, business, health... [more info]
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Medieval Sourcesonline (Manchester University Press)
A collection of primary source material containing over three thousand pages of... [more info]
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Middle English Dictionary (University of Michigan)
A comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available. [more info]
Nation Digital Archive (Nation Publishing Company)
Index with full-text of the Nation... [more info]
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National Museum of African Art
Provides online exhibits of traditional and modern African art. Also links to Radio Africa, which provides streaming audio from the Smithsonian’s Global Sound collection. [more info]
New York Times: Historical (ProQuest)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 3 years ago... [more info]
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Niles' Register Cumulative Index (1811-1849)
Index to the Niles Register, a 19th century Baltimore newspaper, for 1811-1849... [more info]
Reference Desk
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of primary sources written by North American immigrants from 1800 to 1950 ... [more info]
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North American Indian Drama (Alexander Street Press)
North American Indian Drama contains 172 plays by 33 playwrights written... [more info]
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North American Theatre Online (Alexander Street Press)
NATO provides detailed reference information for many theatrical figures, plays, theatres, major productions, and production companies, from Colonial times to the present... [more info]
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North American Women's Drama (Alexander Street Press)
North American Women's Drama contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights... [more info]
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of letters and diaries reflecting on the immediate experiences of 1,017 women ... [more info]
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OAIster Database
OAIster contains thousands of multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,000 contributors worldwide... [more info]
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The Online Library of Liberty (Liberty Fund)
Electronic versions of classic books about individual liberty. These texts go back some 4,000 years... [more info]
Internet
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale)
Contains secondary and primary sources discussing today's social issues... [more info]
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Oral History Online (Alexander Street Press)
This full-text material includes Ellis Island oral history narratives and rare Black Panther Party interviews... [more info]
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Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
The Papers of George Washington:  Diaries, Revolutionary War, Colonial, Confederation, Presidential, and Retirement from 1748-1799. [more info]
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Past Masters: Philosophy and Theology
Searchable full-text collections, in English and/or Latin, of the writings of philosophers and theologians from antiquity into the 20th century. [more info]
Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800 (CSA)
Contains the full-text of the most successful Colonial American newspaper... [more info]
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Pennsylvania Genealogies, Pre-1600's to 1900's (Genealogical Publishing Company)
Images of all three volumes of Genealogies of Pennsylvania families from The Pennsylvania... [more info]
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Pennsylvania Vital Records, 1740-1830 (Family Tree Maker)
Images of virtually every article on births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths... [more info]
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Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest)
Full text for journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. [more info]
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Perseus Digital Library
Classical Greek, Roman, and English Renaissance texts, plays, architectural sources, photos, etc [more info]
Internet
Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886
An electronic archive of eighty-two documents carrying fragmentary texts written by Dickinson between... [more info]
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Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (HW Wilson)
Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States... [more info]
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Taylor and Francis)
Based on the scholary printed Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "REP Online" allows users to search through a regularly updated universe of over... [more info]
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Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 (Gale)
Full text of every book about the Americas published anywhere between 1500 and 1926... [more info]
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Safari Business Library (ProQuest)
 New Interface 10.19.2009.  The new interface relies heavily on Flash, so if there are problems, the first possible solution is to make sure you have the latest version of Flash installed: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html Safari Business Library addresses today's most important business issues and provides access to the latest IT information... [more info]
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Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alexander Street Press)
Full text of poetry from Scottish women, 1789 to 1832, from every social, economic, political and religious... [more info]
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Shaw-Shoemaker Bibliography (Readex)
Use: Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819... [more info]
Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
The world's musical and aural traditions, in streaming audio... [more info]
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South & Southeast Asian Literature (Alexander Street Press)
A collection of fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas... [more info]
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Theatre in Video (Alexander Street Press)
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays... [more info]
Campus/Remote, PN1657 .T4 Internet
Time Archive 1923 to present
Time magazine backfiles 1923 to present. [more info]
Times Digital Archive (Gale)
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a... [more info]
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (Cambridge University Press)
Contains records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866... [more info]
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Twentieth Century North American Drama (Alexander Street Press)
Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 1,530 plays by 223 playwrights... [more info]
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U.S. Congressional Serial Set Digital Edition (Readex)
  An incomparably rich collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history originating from Congress and other federal agencies... [more info]
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Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Streaming video of news from CBS (1968 to date) and CNN (1995 to date) plus indexing of television network news from all the major networks, 1968 to date. [more info]
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Victorian Women Writers Project
Provides transcripts of works written by 19th century British women writers. Includes anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. [more info]
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Contains records of nearly 35,000 trans-Atlantic slaving voyages made between 1514 and 1866... [more info]
Washington Post: Historical (ProQuest)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 15 years ago... [more info]
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Women Writers Online (Brown University)
This resource will cease as of 7/1/2010. Full text collection of essays, fiction, and poetry written by women from 1400-1850. This collection includes... [more info]
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Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
Provides electronic access to over 2,800 volumes of 19th century American fiction. Works may be viewed as either rekeyed text or page images. [more info]
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